Jonathan Takiff: It's your call: Here are lower-cost alternatives to landline phone bills

TIRED OF PAYING lofty landline phone bills and long distance charges? In this economy, who isn't? That's why "even rich people are buying devices like mine," said Dan Borislow, the Philadelphia-rooted inventor/marketer of an Internet-based phone device called magicJack that slashes domestic and international calling fees to literally pennies a day.